SIR ANDREW DAVIS, conductor
STEPHEN HOUGH, piano
MERCURE
Lignes et points
RACHMANINOV
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
PROKOFIEV
Cinderella suite from the ballet
After the success of his ballet Romeo and Juliet, the Mariinsky Theater commissioned from Prokofiev a rethinking of Cinderella. “What I above all wanted to express in the music for Cinderella is the poetic love of Cinderella and the Prince, the birth and flowering of that love, the obstacles thrown up in its path and, finally, the coming true of a dream.” British pianist Stephen Hough never forgets the pleasure of playing and of listening. Here he provides a reading of the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, a series of twenty-four variations on the famous last Caprice from the Italian virtuoso’s own series of twenty-four. The program opens with Mercure’s Lignes et points, a work composed for the OSM in 1963, itself a series of variations on a single theme.
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